# ambit
## English
### Etymology

From Late Middle English ambyte, borrowed from Latin ambitus (“circuit; circumference, perimeter; area within a perimeter; ground around a building; cycle, orbit, revolution”) (compare Late Latin ambitus (“neighbourhood; wall of a castle, monastery, or town; cloister; parish boundary”)), from ambīre + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns from verbs). Ambīre is the present active infinitive of ambiō (“to go around, to skirt; to encircle, surround”), from ambi- (“prefix meaning ‘both, on both sides’”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“front; face; forehead”)) + eō (“to go, move”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”)). The English word is a doublet of ambitus.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈæmbɪt/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* Rhymes: -æmbɪt
* Hyphenation: am‧bit

### Noun

ambit (plural ambits)
* (by extension)
** The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc.
** The area or sphere of control and influence of something.
*** 1913, Gilbert Parker, “‘The Alpine Fellow’”, in The Judgment House […], uniform edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC, book IV, pages 412–413:He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe; but the sharp reaping-hook had passed him by.
* (archaic) The boundary around a building, town, region, etc.
* (archaic, rare) The circumference of something circular; also, an arc; a circuit, an orbit.
* (obsolete) Chiefly in the plural form ambits: the open space surrounding a building, town, etc.; the grounds or precincts of a place.
    Synonym: (of a house) curtilage

#### Derived terms

* ambit claim

#### Related terms

* ambitus

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “ambit, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2020; “ambit, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* ambit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* BTAIM, imbat, timba

## Latin
### Verb

ambit
* third-person singular present active indicative of ambiō

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ambītus. First attested in 1577.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈam.bit/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ambit
* Syllabification: am‧bit

### Noun

ambit m inan
* (architecture) ambulatory
    Synonym: obejście
* (architecture) retrochoir
    ambit katedralnego ― cathedral retrochoir
    ambit katedry ― a cathedral's retrochoir
* (archaic) ambition
    Synonym: ambicja
* (archaic, architecture) cloister
    Synonyms: ganek, krużganek

#### Derived terms

* ambitny
* ambitnie
* brać na ambit
* wjechać na ambit
* wjeżdżać na ambit
* wziąć na ambit

#### Related terms

* ambicjonalny
* ambicyjny
* ambicjonalnie
* ambicyjnie
* ambicja
* ambicyjka

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “ambit”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “ambit”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
* ↑ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ambit”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

### Further reading

* ambit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* ambit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* “NU”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], BR-K
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ambit”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ambit”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “ambit”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 30
* ambit in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego